17. bobb’d, cheated. Cf. “You shall not bob us out of our melody.” — Troilus and Cressida, iii. i, 75. The verb (intrans.) means to knock against, and (trans.) also to thump.

37. Hies, hastens.

40. Passage, a going to and fro of people.

45. Heavy, gloomy, cloudy. Lodovico’s feeling is that it may be a plot; that some one is pretending to be wounded in order to induce the unwary to give assistance, and render themselves an easy prey to confederates.